http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=118679542703A 1,500 year old Native American stone mound was about to be bulldozed near Oxford, Alabama, and the earth used for a landfill to build a Sam's Club, a BIG BOX discount store owned by Walmart.
Protesters there have managed to stop the shovels temporarily but 320 acres of Sacred burial grounds, temples and sanctuaries are at risk.
An Oxford City council member reportedly said, "it ain't no sacred site, it was just used to blow smoke signals"!! Me thinks me smells the whiff of Colonialism in the forms of ignorance, Consumerism and Globalization...
JOIN US in the larger fight to stop the destruction of a sacred ancestral site of historical, spiritual and archaeological importance. Stand up and say Enough!
517 years of Colonialism on this land is enough,
WE are still standing and
WE WILL NOT be erased by Globalization or Consumerism.
We have already paid with the bones of our ancestors, and they will NOT be taken from us any more. Their skin will not be traded or made into boots
Their flesh and bones will not be put on display in a circus or a store display
ENOUGH - we have given enough
TOO MUCH - you have taken too much
NOBODY is going to
"Bury My Heart at Walmart"
NO WAY!
ESPECIALLY NOT those of OUR ancestors.
When are human beings finally going to realize that
WE ARE ALL ONE,
We are all inter-related both to the Earth our Mother and to every living thing?
"Mitakuye Oyesin" -Oglala wisdom*
These bones in the Burial Mounds in Oxford, AL
THESE BONES are the bones of ALL OF OUR ANCESTORS!
They represent the bones of all indigenous peoples who where crushed and desecrated to build the empires of the world. That means all of us, every last human being on this planet is a descendant of indigenous peoples.
Join us in the battle of the just, a battle that was meant to be won.
This is both a war for a powerful paradigm shift as well as for the sacred grounds in Alabama.
INVERT "the sterotypes and archaic notions of indianness,
THIS IS WHAT DECOLONIZATION LOOKS LIKE"*
Yes we are "BAD NDNZ"* - Living,breathing, building a legacy for future generations.
COME B BAD NDNZ too!
-Refuse to Burry your heart at Walmart!
-Refuse racial stereotypes and hatred!
-BOYCOT WALMART & SAM'S CLUB!
-Do not participate in violence or hateful expressions of civil disobedience
-Protest with us through coordinated boycott, social media, mass social media protests (to be scheduled via fax,sms,twitter,facebook)
-USE consensus, cultural paradigm shift as your weapons. These are the most powerful, the most respectful of our ancestors and the most effective:
WEAPONS OF MASS MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA & POP CULTURE.
Respectfully,
Carolyn Chambliss
Mitakuye Oyesin - http://www.russellmeans.com/
"Bad Indian" Poem by Ryan Red Corn http://ow.ly/hcEa
"amazing man, woli'won from the woolastooqiyik nation" - (BringItBackC)
-This "Powerful poem invites all who may watch to rethink, re-imagine, re-frame and reposition current thinking. Finding relevance in today's context and value in the revival of [the]indigenous voice. Mauri ora!
*Above quotes by the following users on Youtube
(greatsleep), (Itehira1)
Please sign the petition to save this Sacred Mound:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.thepetitionsite.com/3/stop-the-destruction-of-a-sacred-indian-mound
Thank you for your support!